The Unconscious Mind is Grieving

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The Unconscious Mind is Grieving

Noam Schneck, PhD Assistant Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry), Columbia University

The Department of Psychiatry welcomes Dr. Noam Schneck for a Special Guest Lecture on December 18th. Dr. Schneck is a licensed psychologist who combines his clinical background with his interest in neuroimaging to identify temporal relationships between mental processes that contribute to psychopathology. This approach employs multivariate modeling and decoding to identify the trajectories of ongoing cognitive and emotional processes.

Dr. Noam SchneckNoam Schneck, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry)
Columbia University School of medicine

Dr. Schneck studies the way that people adapt to the suicide loss of a loved one. Specifically, his research aims to identify unconscious processes of coping with the loss that help people grow and adapt while also allowing them to remain engaged in current life demands. These unconscious processes are identified using a machine learning based approach to functional magnetic resonance brain imaging called neural decoding. The goal of this research is to ultimately develop a treatment technique that would entrain greater unconscious processing of the loss.

Date & Time. December 18, 2019, 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location. UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH) Auditorium

Learning Objectives. At the conclusion of Dr. Schneck's lecture participants will be able to:

  1. Understand theories on unconscious information processing

  2. Understand brain imaging methodologies for identifying unconscious processing.

  3. Understand potential implications for treatment of pathological grief. 

For More Information. Please contact Frances Patrick at patrickfm@upmc.edu.

The entirety of this program will be a lecture by the speaker(s). All individuals able to control the content of this educational activity are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any proprietary entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients. Registration is not required for this event. This event is free and there will be no refunds. The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.
Continuing Education Credit:  The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM.  Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.  Other health care professionals are awarded .15 continuing education units (CEUs), which are equal to 1.5 contact hours.  In accordance with Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education requirements on disclosure, information about relationships of presenters with commercial interests (if any) will be included in materials which will be distributed at the time of the conference.  WPH is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. WPH maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.  This program is being offered for 1.5 continuing education credits.
The indicated number of clock hours of continuing education is provided through UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital of UPMC’s Office of Educational Resources and Planning, a PA-approved provider of social work continuing education in accordance with all the applicable educational and professional standards of the Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapist.  These clock hours satisfy requirements for LSW/LCSW, LPC and LMFT renewal. For more information, call (412) 204-9085.